Industrial Engineer - Brits at Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Job purpose

• The Industrial Engineer is responsible to identify, design and improve production processes with the purpose of increasing productivity, eliminating wastefulness, reducing costs, and ensuring quality standards are maintained.

Main responsibilities

•  Analyzing production processes, equipment, data, and related information.
•  Overall Equipment Effectiveness analysis and optimisation.
•  Designing production processes that maximize efficiency and reduce waste.
•  Optimising process flow and First-In-First-Out systems
•  Developing and implementing process improvements and technological upgrades.
•  Designing control systems to minimize costs and production issues.
•  Developing design and production standards and standard operating procedures in cooperation with management and user personnel.
•  Designing the layout of facilities and determining personnel requirements.
•  Training staff for new processes and providing instructions and manuals.
•  Managing process documentation and preparing production reports.

BRIDGESTONE BEHAVIORS

• Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:
•  Agility – to work in a matrix and complex environment where change happens at a rapid pace
•  Courage – to share ideas, think out of the box
•  Ownership – to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role

BRIDGESTONE LEADERSHIP ESSENCE

• Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:
•  Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision: Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
•  Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others: Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
•  Promotes and enhances company culture: Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
•  Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
•  BOSS focused - serves the customers having the end users in mind: Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage
•  Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence: Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits. Understands emotions and their effects
•  Intellectually curious in support of learning agility: Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
•  Embraces and leads change and innovation: Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization
•  Identifies and develops organizational talent: Attracts high calibre diverse talent , leads and guides others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives through on-going development and collaboration

Required capabilities

•  Advanced knowledge of production machinery, processes, and standards.
•  Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
•  Strong communication and presentation skills.
•  Troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.
•  Documentation and organization skills.
•  Proficiency in MS Office and AutoCAD.

Education:

•  BEng/ BSc Industrial engineering
•  Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Experience:

•  8 years relevant experience in a manufacturing environment.
•  Automotive industry experience will be advantageous.
•  In depth technical understanding of work involved.

Leadership Competencies:

•  Drives accountability and high performance
•  Fosters teamwork and collaboration
•  Nurtures and coaches
•  Health and Safety
•  Hazard Awareness
•  SHE Law and Regulatory Systems
•  Emergency Response